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Standards:: 1: Students will listen, speak, read, and write in English for information and understanding.
Performance Indicators:
1. Identify and use reading and listening strategies to make text comprehensible and meaningful. Such strategies include skimming; scanning; previewing; reviewing; discussing; listening selectively; listening for a specific purpose; listening for main ideas and details; using structural and context clues, cognates, format, sequence, and an understanding of letter-sound relationships to decode difficult words.
2. Read, gather, view, listen to, organize, discuss, and interpret information related to academic content areas from various sources. Such sources include reference books, magazines, textbooks, the Internet, audio and media presentations, oral interviews, charts, graphs, maps, and diagrams.
3. Select information appropriate to the purpose of the investigation, and relate ideas from one written or spoken source to another.
4. Compare, contrast, and categorize, to gain a deeper understanding of information and objects.
5. Formulate, ask, and respond to questions to obtain, clarify, and extend information and meaning.
6. Support inferences about information and ideas with reference to features in oral and written text. Such features include vocabulary, facts, sequence, and details.
7. Present information clearly in a variety of oral and written forms for different audiences and purposes related to all academic content areas. Such forms include retelling, paraphrases, summaries, stories, brief reports, posters, picture summaries, charts, and other graphics.
8. Select a focus, organization, and point of view for oral and written presentations.
9.-: Convey information, using a variety of organizational patterns and structures. Such patterns and structures include chronological order, cause and effect, similarities and differences, and general-to-specific presentation.
10. Distinguish between fact and opinion, and relevant and irrelevant information.
11. Use the process of prewriting, drafting, revising, and proofreading (the "writing process") to produce wellconstructed informational texts.
12. Convey information and ideas through spoken and written language, using conventions and features of American English. Such spoken language features include appropriate grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and intonation. Such written language features include appropriate grammar, vocabulary, correct spelling, punctuation, and capitalization, and paragraphing.
13. Engage in collaborative activities through a variety of student groupings to read, gather, share, discuss, interpret, organize, and present information. Such groupings include small groups, cooperative learning groups, process writing groups, research groups, and interest groups.
14. Consult print and nonprint resources (e.g., audio/visual media, family) in the native language when needed.
15. Apply self-monitoring and self-correcting strategies for accurate language production and oral and written presentation, using established criteria for effective presentation of information. Such strategies include referring to illustrations, asking questions, starting over, rephrasing, and exploring alternative ways of saying things.
16. Apply learning strategies to acquire information and make oral and written texts comprehensible and meaningful. Such strategies include asking questions; using prior knowledge, graphic organizers, and context cues; planning; note taking; questioning; exploring cognates and root words; and applying ideas to new settings or experiences.